Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-13

sNo,' said the pale young man sadly, "I am not working on a farm for my health now"
 'tIs that soa"
 "Yes. have come away, and the farm which knew me would perhaps know me yet if it could get a sight of me, but it can't.
 ''I went out, you know, by the advice of physician. Said he: You need outdoor exercise, and above all sleep, such long, qui- ct nights sleep as you can only find in the country away from the noise and heat of the city, with the great open windows and the cool and velvety breeze floating through your room all night long, with perhaps an occasional night with the pattering rain upon the roof to Hull you to sleep That's what the doctor said.
 tSo hired out to farmer to work all summer He said was so white and pale that he couldn't give me anything but my board for my services, but if wanted to work for that I might climb in behind the seat and ride out.
 s'So I did He had one mule and one horse, and the mule baked every time we went up hill and the horse every time we went down hill, and they both tried to run away on the level. He drove them with 8 trace chain tied on 8 white ash sxe-helve. sBut we got out there at last. l don't want to tell you anything about the work to- day-I haven't time-but I feel as if must say something about those long nights sleep. "The first night we got home late, but still the sun was only nicely down. The sun sets about two hours later out there than anywhere else in the known world. fAfter supper the farmer spent one hour and half telling me about the flax crop on the back forty, and then he reckoned we he said each would take six. He gave me the kickers and it took me two hours, and it had been dark long time when I finished. Then he had me pump up water for the next day. And it took forty minutes. Then I filled the wood-box and split the kindling wood. And as it was big box it took thir- ty minutes. Then he told me about the oat crop, which took an hour. And when went to bed it was growing light in the east.
 "The window in the room was 8 pane of glass nailed over an irregular hole in the boards and could not be opened. I felt around in the dim light and finally got into bed had just fallen asleep and had begun to dream was lying along the ridge pole of double bumped camel when the farmer pounded on the stairs with an old broom stick and said breakfast was ready. couldn't see as it was any lighter than when went to bed, though the sky in the east was little redder.
 VIII PooS OSCA SAo Ody, aS 1b AS .PoAAAAo. to recall Or rather the day and the last end of one night and the first end of another, for we were in the hayfield sixteen hours.
 "And that evening after supper he said l might throw the dirt out of a new cellar while rested.
 "Then we milked, and he gave me eight cows instead of six-all kickers. And one of them was hooker too, and slammed me through the corn crib.
 'T got to bed an hour sooner than the night before, because he said he was think ing some of getting up early the next morn ing.
 4tAnd that night it rained, and heard the pleasant batter of the rain on the roof that that old fraud of doctor spoke about. But it didn't Hull me to sleep because it leaked down on me and got the bedclothes all wet and caught cold.
 "And when the farmer pounded on the stairs got up and looked at my watch, and had been abed an hour and forty minutes.